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PyCharm: PyCharm 2025.2: AI Toolkit for AI Engineers and More!

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/08/pycharm-2025-2/
Real Python: Quiz: Mastering While Loops

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/mastering-while-loops/

In this quiz, you’ll practice indefinite iteration using the Python while loop.
You’ll test your knowledge of constructing basic and complex while loops, interrupting loop execution with break and con
Real Python: Quiz: Using Dictionaries in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/dictionaries-python/

Do you remember how Python dictionaries work? In this quiz, you’ll revisit key concepts, such as accessing values, adding and removing entries, nesting dictionaries, and understanding valid key types.
Real Python: Exploring Python T-Strings

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/exploring-t-strings/

Python 3.14’s t-strings allow you to intercept and transform input values before assembling them into a final representation. Unlike f-strings, which produce a str object, t-strings resolve to a Templ
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #693: Nested Functions, Bitwise Operators, Virtual Threads, and More (Aug. 5, 2025)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/693

#693 – AUGUST 5, 2025 View in Browser » Nested Functions in Python Functions in Python can be defined within another function, this post shows you how and just why you might do that. TREY HUNNER
Django Weblog: Django bugfix release issued: 5.2.5

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/aug/06/bugfix-releases/

Today we've issued the 5.2.5 bugfix release.
The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index.
The PGP key ID used for this release is
Real Python: Quiz: What Are Mixin Classes in Python?

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/python-mixin/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of What Are Mixin Classes in Python?
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit Python mixins, how they’re used, and the benefits they offer.

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Brian Okken: pytest fixtures nuts and bolts - revisited

Link: https://pythontest.com/pytest-fixtures-nuts-bolts-revisited/

In 2013/2014 I wrote a 4 part series on pytest fixtures.
It started out fine-ish. And then by part 4 I crammed way too many concepts into one huge post.
Well, I’ve recently reviewed all of this, and
Real Python: What Are Mixin Classes in Python?

Link: https://realpython.com/python-mixin/

Mixins offer a powerful way to reuse code across multiple Python classes without forcing them into a rigid inheritance hierarchy. Instead of building deep and brittle class trees, you can use mixins t
James Bennett: Litestar is worth a look

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/

A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation of async-first, type-hint-driven Python web frameworks. For reasons which aren’t particularly releva
Python Insider: Python 3.13.6 is now available

Link: https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2025/08/python-3136-is-now-available.html

The latest version of Python 3.13 is now available!Python 3.13.6
 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3136/

This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.13
Python 3.13 is the newest
Mike Driscoll: Python 101: Reading TOML with Python

Link: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2025/08/07/python-101-reading-toml-with-python/

The TOML (Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language) format came out in 2013, so it’s been around for more than a decade. Python added support for TOML in Python 3.11 with its tomllib module in the standard libr
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2025 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-august-2025-release/

We’re excited to announce the August 2025 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!
This release includes the following announcements:

Python Environments extensio
Glyph Lefkowitz: The Best Line Length

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best-line-length.html

What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?
This is, of course, a trick question. By posing it as a question, I have
created the misleading impression that it is a question, but
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Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #260: Harnessing the Power of Python Polars

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/260/

What are the advantages of using Polars for your Python data projects? When should you use the lazy or eager APIs, and what are the benefits of each? This week on the show, we speak with Jeroen Jansse
Quansight Labs Blog: Support for ABI3 packages in conda!

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/conda-abi3

See how Point72 teamed up with Quansight to fund support for ABI3 packages in the conda ecosystem.
Glyph Lefkowitz: R0ML’s Ratio

Link: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html

My father, also known as
“R0ML” once described a methodology for evaluating
volume purchases that I think needs to be more popular.
If you are a hardcore fan, you might know that he has already descri